UK Reviews

At its best, the artist’s London survey is a ferocious display of courage, while at its worst, it feels like a tribute act

At Soft Opening, London, Hendrickje Schimmel challenges linear constructs of creation and usage by manipulating end-of-life materials

Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art delicately weaves weighty issues into Limerick’s surroundings

At White Cube Mason's Yard, the artist’s latest film is a Kafkaesque vision that may leave you pining for the exit

From the peat of the Scottish hill-tops, the artist embraces a material language of ritualism and transformation

A group show at Pilar Corrias, London, unites work dealing with the natural world and humanity’s impact on it

At The Modern Institute, Glasgow, an exhibition filled with religious symbolism feels curiously shallow

The artist fluctuates between meditation and masochistic intensity at London’s Whitechapel Gallery

At The Approach, London, the painter brings domestic scenes and transient recollections into the light

From balletic sculptures to cyborg imagery, a group show at Gathering, London, delves into the vulnerability of our bodies

At Spike Island, Bristol, the artist captures the flux of queer existence in collages of gender non-conforming figures throughout time

A sparse exhibition at David Zwirner, London, sees the artist embrace pointillism, but her subjects remain the same: beautiful men 

Khanyisile Mbongwa’s programme addresses the history of international slave trading that haunts its famous docks

At Gasworks, London, the artist envisions a time when half the world’s population is living in a tropical climate 

An exhibition of kaleidoscopic painting at Victoria Miro, London, is a celebration of free love and excess

A grotesque new group show at Sadie Coles HQ, London, addresses sexual power dynamics but tends toward outdated provocation

At Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, the artist’s portraits play with the idea of cinematic dissolve to reframe female figures from history

At Phillida Reid, London, a series of elegant ink drawings prods at the art world’s social anxieties

At Auto Italia, London, David Aruquipa Pérez’s photographic archive is an intergenerational and transcultural ode to street activism

At Modern Art Oxford, the artist’s monumental new film examines 15 judges working in England and Wales